DOUBTFULLY NATIVE WESTERNESS PLANTS 179 



CERASTIUM GLOMERATUM, Thitill Denizen probably. Very com- 

 mon on roadsides and gravel paths, and in gardens and waste 

 places. 



STELLARIA MEDIA, Cyr. Denizen ? Very common in gardens and 

 waste places, and on roadsides near houses ; also on shingly 

 shores, and on cattle dung on moors where it is not permanent. 

 It is absent from deserted crofts. 



(ARENARIA SERPYLLIFOLIA, Z., is native, but local, on sandy and 

 dry banks, remote from cultivation.) 



GERANIUM MOLLE, Z. Native ? Uncommon, in sandy places near 

 the sea, sometimes remote from cultivation. This species is 

 increasing through cultivation, and along roadsides. 



GERANIUM DISSECTUM, Z. Less like a native than the preceding, 

 occurring in nearly similar places, but less frequent, except in 

 cultivated ground, in which it also is increasing. 



(ERODIUM CICUTARIUM, L'Herit. Native but rare, being confined 

 to sandy shores and neighbouring banks. It does not occur as 

 a weed of cultivation.) 



(ILEX AQUIFOLIUM, Z. Native. Common in hilly copses, on sea 

 cliffs, and by sides of hill lochs. It has become scarcer as a 

 wild plant since the introduction of rabbits, as seedlings can 

 grow only in spots inaccessible to them, and this is usually 

 where there is not sufficient soil to nourish a tree.) 



ULEX EUROP/EUS, Z., is a very doubtful native. Dr. Walker in his 

 "Economic History of the Hebrides and Highlands," in which 

 the result of six journeys to the Highlands, from 1760 to 1786, 

 are given, says of this plant : " Exists not in Cantyre, nor upon 

 any of the western coasts and islands of Scotland north of that 

 promontory." It is a luxuriant plant in this district, self-sown 

 seedlings springing up freely. Tradition gives it as having 

 been brought to one of its sites from another locality, twenty- 

 six miles distant, in the dung of cattle. 



CYTISUS SCOPARIUS, Link. Perhaps a rare native, among heathy 

 rocks. 



TRIFOLIUM DUBIUM, Sibth. Denizen probably, though locally com- 

 mon in cultivated fields of clover and rye-grass chiefly, and on 

 adjoining dry banks and roadsides ; but seldom permanent in 

 any station. 



VICIA CRACCA, Z. Probably native, and rather common. It occurs 

 on rocky places at some distance from cultivation, and on sea 

 cliffs ; but more usually at the sides of fields. I have frequently 

 noticed plants springing up in " wild " localities, but where the 

 nearest plants were in cultivated fields. 



